Maria Taniguchi & Emilia Tanner: Figure

Duo exhibition of Maria Taniguchi (Philippines, 1981, lives in Manila) and Emilia Tanner (Finland, 1990, lives in Helsinki).

Maria Taniguchi and Emilia Tanner share an uncompromising approach to vision, experience and material. Their works straddle the boundaries between image and process and become embodiments of time: the time it took to make them and the time it takes to view them.

Maria Taniguchi shows some of the untitled paintings, based on the simplest and most common repeating pattern in masonry, that she has been making for more than a dozen years. This almost imperceptibly mutating series is a reminder that some artists – they were never many – are capable of constant renewal while remaining unwaveringly loyal to one motif, always and never painting the same painting.

Emilia Tanner shows a selection of recent and new pieces for which the common denominators are paper and light. Two sources of light have been harnessed: laser beams, programmed to burn into the paper without fully penetrating it, and sunbeams, allowed free passage through holes that Tanner manually pierces in the paper. The book-binding needles she uses push excess paper through the holes, leaving ragged edges on the verso that signal three-dimensionality to the observing eye.

Kohta

11.4.-16.6.2024

Tue-Fri 12.00-18.00

Sat-Sun 12.00-16.00

Free entry